by Mike Purdy | May 4, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Books, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Lyndon B. Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson
If you are looking for finding good biographies about the Presidents, the following are some good resources to check out: Best Presidential Biographies: Stephen Floyd maintains a very helpful website in which he posts his reviews of all the presidential biographies...
by Mike Purdy | Mar 25, 2015 | Barack Obama, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, White House
Presidential History Roundup #1: Interesting news about Presidential history: Eisenhower: So you think you know Ike? What did former speechwriter William Ewald know about Eisenhower? Ewald passed away on March 16, 2015 at age 89. Nixon: Nixon’s secret and...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 27, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson
The following is the list of nine books about the Presidents that I read in 2014: Thomas Jefferson – From Boy to Man, by Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox, 342 pages. This book is more a personal account of Jefferson’s early years than it is a description of...
by Mike Purdy | May 27, 2014 | Books, Richard Nixon
Mike Purdy drawing 3 names from a hat On Memorial Day, May 26, 2014, I pulled three names from the list of 218 email subscribers to this Presidential History Blog as the lucky winners of a free copy of the recently published book, Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate...
by Mike Purdy | Feb 11, 2014 | Books, Presidential Sites, Thomas Jefferson
On January 27, 2014, I had the privilege to visit Thomas Jefferson’s masterpiece home, Monticello – a building that he called his “essay in architecture.” Over the course of more than 40 years, he was continually making changes to his beloved...
by Mike Purdy | Dec 21, 2012 | Books, Speeches
In a new book published on October 16, 2012 by Lyons Press, author C. Edwin Vilada has assembled 20 of the most memorable Presidential speeches. Book title: The book is titled: “The President’s Speech: The Stories Behind the Most...
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